With the 2023 Point-in-Time count in the rearview mirror, officials at the Housing and Homelessness Committee congregated Tuesday to focus on what to make of the numbers.
After two recesses and four hours of discourse, Kern County officials approved the new system and rates Tuesday for the county’s trash collection in its three zones — metro Bakersfield, western Kern and eastern Kern — with select areas removed from each.
In response to a grand jury report released earlier this year, Kern’s Emergency Medical Services division agreed with all its findings: It needs more workers, desperately.
Lawn trimmings, chicken bones and banana peels: the scraps, once tossed from the mind the moment they landed in the trash, are now dumped at the center of a debate between the county and some of its rural residents over who should handle their waste and at what cost.
Former Republican challenger David Shepard, R-Porterville, released a memorandum Thursday that alleges various “administrative errors and likely violations” among three of the four county election offices that comprise California’s 16th State Senate District.
A little more than a month after her removal, Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains, D-Bakersfield, was reinstated earlier this month to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee.
City leaders on Wednesday approved a feasibility study on the potential cost and scope of a locally controlled energy supply program.
It wasn’t the flooding that got their attention, or the mold that sprouted up the bathroom walls. It wasn’t the cabinets that kept loosening from their hinges, or the two front burners that failed to spark.
The last time Brik McDill ventured to Los Angeles, it was to the Los Angeles International Airport. The Kern County resident sped along Interstate 405 toward arrivals, scooped up his family, and exited on Century Boulevard. As he continued out of the airport thoroughfare that day in 2021, he…
The Bakersfield City Council approved an expansion of the Flock surveillance system in the city, the second installment of the cameras since 2021.
Facing an uncertain economy, Bakersfield City Manager Christian Clegg on Wednesday proposed a nearly $391 million budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year, a $7.4 million increase that reflected continued challenges for Bakersfield, from its housing deficits to the accumulating vacancies in public…
March was a good month for the city, in terms of its homeless population.
Two Kern County lawmakers joined 10 of their peers Tuesday in asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to spend more money on flood plain restoration and flood disaster relief and prevention.
Kern officials approved Tuesday the construction of Oregon Street Apartments, a 16-unit affordable apartment complex in east Bakersfield.
Alejandra Velasco, a farmworker in Taft, began her day on Feb. 23 with a note on her front door. The note, issued by her landlord, was a notice to vacate. She had 60 days to pack her belongings and her family and leave. Velasco was being evicted, and no explanation was provided.
Democrats have a distinct, singular message for the Republican majority ahead of the 2024 elections: Don’t get too comfortable.
In January, Jasmeet Bains entered office for the 35th District as the first Indian-origin Sikh woman elected to the state Assembly. Last week, Bains again broke ground for Sikhs, as the first to be removed from a state committee.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Thursday he topped his own record by raising $35 million in the first quarter of 2023, a sign of his continuing dominance as the GOP’s leading draw.
Days after voting against fellow Democrats on a party-line gas bill, Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains of Bakersfield, has lost one of her committee assignments.
After word spread last week that the state oil and gas supervisor had stepped down, once the Newsom administration thanked him for his service and the industry lamented the influence of politics on the position, environmental justice activists stepped up to take a little credit.
Given the hostage-taking nature of Kevin McCarthy’s historic, 15th-ballot victory over elements within his own party to win the House speakership Friday night/Saturday morning, it might be helpful to consider how much worse it could have been.
Local Republican leaders stood by Rep. Kevin McCarthy after his failure Tuesday to win enough votes to become speaker of the House, and even Kern’s top Democrat predicted Bakersfield’s most powerful politician will eventually claim the gavel, as consensus emerged that the televised balloting…
Several days after the end of Kern County’s recount of November 2022 ballots, state Sen. Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, announced Tuesday her campaign will seek a count of its own.
The Kern County Elections Office announced there is no change in the outcome of its earlier results for the state Senate District 16 race after a recount was requested two weeks ago and finished Wednesday.
Recounts in three of the four counties in state Senate District 16 remain in various stages of completion this week, with two all but finished, one expected to wrap up shortly after the holiday weekend and another yet to begin, election officials said Friday.
Dr. Jasmeet Bains, ahead by 21 percentage points and more than 12,000 votes two weeks after the general election, declared victory Tuesday over Leticia Perez in the two-Democrat race to represent California's 35th Assembly District.
Brian Smith conceded defeat Monday night in the race for the 3rd District Kern County Board of Supervisors seat, leaving opponent Jeff Flores the apparent winner with 52.51 percent of 39,916 ballots counted as of earlier in the day.
The Kern County Elections Office released its latest round of returns Friday since its last election update Tuesday afternoon.
The Kern County Elections Division on Tuesday updated its ongoing count of ballots from the Nov. 8 general election.
For Flor Alvarado, being a farmworker is to understand endurance.
The Kern County Elections Division released its first big batch of returns since its election night count Friday afternoon.
After an election night marked by statewide victories for moderate Democrats, one of the San Joaquin Valley’s biggest agricultural water districts assessed how best to maintain its influence.
Kern County has an estimated 106,683 unprocessed ballots still to be processed from Tuesday's General Election, according to Mary Bedard, Kern County clerk and registrar of voters.
After trading leads back and forth on election night, David Shepard wound up ahead as of Wednesday afternoon with tens of thousands of ballots to be counted.
Rep. David Valadao extended his lead Wednesday over Assemblyman Rudy Salas in the race for California's 22nd Congressional District seat.
Voters cast their ballots Tuesday in races for the county's largest high school district, the state's biggest K-8 district and several smaller ones.
While the Kern County-backed campaign for a tax hike to support basic emergency services had the simple majority it needed to pass based on early returns, a union-backed measure to install term limits received overwhelming support, based on the same results.
It could be days or even weeks before officials winners can be declared, according to county officials charged with counting this year’s election ballots.
Rep. David Valadao pulled ahead of his Democratic challenger, Assemblyman Rudy Salas, in early results Tuesday night in the hard-fought race for California's 22nd Congressional District seat.
As of late Tuesday evening, with 102 of the 143 precincts' votes counted, Jeff Flores has taken an early lead against Brian Smith.
After winning the primary by nearly 14 percent, Republican candidate David Shepard is hopeful the trend continues, but he'll likely have to wait at least a few days to find out.
After months of talk about public safety issues, homelessness and road safety — which most candidates discussed as their pressing concerns for Bakersfield leading up to Tuesday — the voters have cast their ballots.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy took a strong lead over Democratic schoolteacher Marisa Wood in balloting Tuesday for California's 20th Congressional District seat.
It's too early to call three separate races that could have a major impact on one of the state's largest high school districts.
State Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, had found great confidence when gaining her win by a large margin against Susanne Gundy after the June primary.
Trustees for Areas 2 and 4, somewhat in the middle of the district's boundaries, were on the ballot.
The polls are open Tuesday, Kern County, and another election cycle is here.
Poverty fell in California during the COVID pandemic, recent data shows, largely due to state and national safety net programs, especially the expansion of federal child tax credits.
